RE: Promoting i5!

Trevor,

Ditto all your points and I'd like to question the following:

Would the i5 really be the server to recommend if a customer has _no_ i5 OS 
workload?

I suppose you can run the i5 without an i5/OS partition, but you certainly 
can't buy one (new) without paying for a i5/OS license, right?

I think the OpenPower servers would have been a better recommendation.  Too bad 
you can't have an IxA or IxS Windows server with the OpenPower boxes...or can 
you?


Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of trevor perry
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 3:19 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Promoting i5!
> 
> 
> Pity the answer included this uninformed sentence "(even 
> running Linux and 
> Windows on separate partitions)".
> 
> And then he continues: "This way, in a real way you don't 
> really have to 
> make a decision whether to purchase multiple services, as 
> this solution 
> provides you multiple virtual services within a single piece 
> of hardware! Of 
> course, you will still have the issue of what to do if the 
> entire box goes 
> in the night, which perhaps might even point you towards 
> purchasing two of 
> these goodies!"
> 
> Hmmm. Can we tell him there is a difference between Power 
> Linux and Intel 
> Linux? And that Windows and Intel Linux run on separate 
> servers (IXS - 
> inside the iSeries, IXA - HSL attached) that use iSeries disk 
> as a SAN? And 
> the best way for HA for these platforms is a hot spare IXS 
> not another box? 
> And the "entire box going in the night" is practically 
> unheard of in the 
> iSeries world?
> 
> Does anyone know how this kind of misinformation can be 
> repaired? Shall we 
> send a letter to one Linux "expert" or should there be some 
> more informed 
> marketing to these "experts" in general??
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Thought you may be interested.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jan.
> >
> > 
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>
> If you really want to get creative, why don't you look into the eServer i5
> server platform. This server contains virtualization technologies that 
> allow
> you to run multiple virtual hosts on one server (even running Linux and
> Windows on separate partitions). You can essentially pool your resources 
> by
> having multiple environments on a single server, and pretty much
> automatically respond to changes in processor demand with logical
> partitioning, which may give you the flexible growth it sounds like you 
> need.